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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: jbe who wrote (46002)	7/18/1999 9:36:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) of 108807

OK, point well taken, Jane Austen is my favorite writer of all time. I don't know why people think Austen is just frilly-panties stuff, or that it's just about finding a mate. She writes about accidents, illness, old age, death, and birth, and the struggle to find a living in an uncertain world, and the struggle to become educated against the odds. She writes about the unpleasant future of women who lost their virginity outside of marriage at a time when that made them "unmarketable", not so different from many places yet today, and the almost as unpleasant future of women who marry men who are bad providers in a time when women were not allowed to have work outside the household. Finding a suitable husband can be a matter of life or death. Losing the paterfamilias can mean destitution and ruin. Marrying an unbearable man because he is the only one who asked is a fate not to be envied. It's not all tea-parties and promenading at Bath. Ask the women who live in Iran and Iraq and Afghanistan whether Jane Austen has anything to say to them, if they were allowed to read her.

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